Darwin as a plant scientist: a Southern Hemisphere perspective

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 421-435

  Hopper, Stephen D ^a,b   Lambers, Hans ^b  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BOTANY; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTORY; METABOLISM; PLANT; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BOTANY; EVOLUTION; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; PLANTS;

EID: 68549111362     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2009.06.004     Document Type: Review

References (116)

1. Friedman W.E. The meaning of Darwin's 'abominable mystery'. Am. J. Bot. 96 (2009) 5-21
2. In: Keynes R.D. (Ed). Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary (1988), Cambridge University Press
3. Darwin C.R. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. 1st edn (1859), John Murray
4. Darwin C.R. On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects (1862), John Murray
5. Darwin C.R. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. 1st edn (1868), John Murray
6. Darwin C.R. Insectivorous Plants (1875), John Murray
7. Darwin C.R. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants. 2nd edn (1875), John Murray
8. Darwin C.R. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom (1876), John Murray
9. Darwin C.R. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species (1877), John Murray
10. Darwin C.R. The Power of Movement in Plants (1880), John Murray
11. Darwin F. The botanical work of Darwin. Ann. Bot. (Lond.) 13 (1899) 9-19
12. Ayres P. The Aliveness of Plants: The Darwins at the Dawn of Plant Science (2008), Pickering & Chatto
13. Jones S. Darwin's Island The Galapagos in the garden of England (2008), Little Brown Books
14. Ornduff R. Darwin's botany. Taxon 33 (1984) 39-47
15. McClure B. Darwin's foundation for investigating self-incompatibility and the progress toward a physiological model for S-RNase-based SI. J. Exp. Bot. 60 (2009) 1069-1081
16. Allan M. Darwin and his Flowers. The Key to Natural Selection (1977), Taplinger Publishing Company
17. Johnson E.A. Darwin and plant ecology. Ecology 59 (1978) 1081
18. Briggs J.C. Darwin's biogeography. J. Biogeogr. 36 (2009) 1011-1017
19. Stockey R.A., et al. Introduction to the Darwin special issue: the abominable mystery. Am. J. Bot. 96 (2009) 3-4
20. Herbert S. Charles Darwin, Geologist (2005), Cornell University Press
21. Ghiselin M.T. The Triumph of the Darwinian Method. 1st edn (1969), University of California Press
22. Thomson K. The Young Charles Darwin (2009), Yale University Press
23. Kohn D., et al. What Henslow taught Darwin. Nature 436 (2005) 643-645
24. Henslow J.S. The Principles of Descriptive and Physiological Botany (1835), Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor
25. Henslow J.S. On the specific identity of the primrose, oxlip, cowslip, and polyanthus. Mag. Nat. Hist. & J. Zool 3 (1830) 406-409
26. Linnaeus C. Species plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas Vol. 1 (1753), Holmiae: Impensis Laurentii Salvii
27. Smith J.E. English Botany Vol. 1 (1790), James Sowerby pp. 4-5
28. Von Humboldt, A. (1807, translated 1826) Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent During the Years 1799-1804 by Alexandre de Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green
29. Lubbock C.A. The Herschel Chronicle; The Life-Story of William Herschel and His Sister, Caroline Herschel (1933), Macmillan
30. Smith N., et al. Flowering Plants of the Neotropics (2004), Princeton University Press
31. Keynes R.D. Fossils, finches and Fuegians (2003), Oxford University Press
32. McCalman I. Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World (2009), Norton, U. S. A
33. Pearson P.N., and Nicholas C.J. 'Marks of extreme violence': Charles Darwin's geological observations at St Jago (São Tiago), Cape Verde islands. In: Wyse Jackson P.N. (Ed). Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel (Geological Society, London, Special Publications Vol. 287) (2007), Geological Society of London 239-253
34. Porter D.M. Charles Darwin's vascular plant specimens from the voyage of HMS Beagle. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 93 (1986) 1-172
35. Porter D.M., et al. Some new Darwin vascular plant specimens from the Beagle voyage. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 159 (2009) 12-18
36. Nicholas F.W., and Nicholas J.M. Charles Darwin in Australia (2002), Cambridge University Press
37. Mabberley D. Jupiter Botanicus Robert Brown of the British Museum (1985), J. Cramer
38. Porter D.M. The vascular plants of Joseph Dalton Hooker's An enumeration of the plants of the Galapagos Archipelago; with descriptions of those which are new. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 81 (1980) 79-134
39. Vallance T.G. Presidential address: origins of Australian geology. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 100 (1975) 13-43
40. Branagan D. Australia - a Cenozoic history. In: Grapes R.H., et al. (Ed). History of Geomorphology and Quaternary Geology (Geological Society, London, Special Publications Vol. 301) (2008), Geological Society of London 189-213
41. Gale S.J. Long-term landscape evolution in Australia. Earth Surf. Process. Landf. 17 (1992) 323-343
42. Twidale C.R. On the survival of paleoforms. Am. J. Sci. 276 (1976) 77-95
43. Twidale C.R. Ancient Australian Landscapes (2007), Rosenburg, Dural NSW
44. Darwin C.R. Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Together with Some Brief Notices of the Geology of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope. Being the Second Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, Under the Command of Capt. FitzRoy, R. N. During the years 1832 to 1836 (1844), Smith Elder and Co
45. Banks M.R., and Leaman D. Charles Darwin's field notes on the geology of hobart town - a modern appraisal. Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania 133 (1999) 29-50
46. In: Lamb W. (Ed). The Voyage of George Vancouver 1791-1795 Vol. 1 (1984), Hakluyt Society
47. Hopper S.D., and Gioia P. The southwest Australian floristic region: evolution and conservation of global hotspot of biodiversity. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 35 (2004) 623-650
48. Armstrong P. Charles Darwin in Western Australia. A Young Scientist's Perception of an Environment (1985), University of Western Australia Press
49. Hooker J.D. The Botany The Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843. Part III. Flora Tasmaniae Vol. I Dicotyledones (1860), Lovell Reeve
50. Anand R.R., and Paine M. Regolith geology of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: implications for exploration. Aust. J. Earth Sci. 49 (2002) 3-162
51. Hopper, S.D. OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes. Plant Soil (in press)
52. Hillis R.R., et al. Present-day stresses, seismicity and neogene-to-recent tectonics of Australia's 'passive' margins: intraplate deformation controlled by plate boundary forces. In: Johnson H., et al. (Ed). The Nature and Origin of Compression in Passive Margins (Geological Society, London, Special Publications Vol. 306) (2008), Geological Society of London 71-89
53. Rudwick M.J.S. Darwin and Glen Roy: a great failure in scientific method?. Stud. Hist. Philos. Sci. 5 (1974) 97-185
54. Verboom W.H., and Pate J.S. Bioengineering of soil profiles in semiarid ecosystems: the 'phytotarium' concept. A review. Plant Soil 289 (2006) 71-102
55. Orians G.H., and Milewski A.V. Ecology of Australia: the effects of nutrient-poor soils and intense fires. Biol. Rev. Camb. Philos. Soc. 82 (2007) 393-423
56. Lambers H., et al. N- and P-acquisition change as soils age. Trends Ecol. Evol. 23 (2008) 95-103
57. Pate J.S., and Verboom W.H. Contemporary biogenic formation of clay pavements by eucalypts: further support for the phytotarium concept. Ann. Bot. (Lond.) 103 (2009) 673-685
58. Cowling R.M., and Richardson D.M. Fynbos: South Africa's Unique Floral Kingdom (1995), Fernwood Press
59. Cowling R.M., et al. Plant diversity in mediterranean-climate regions. Trends Ecol. Evol. 11 (1996) 362-366
60. Goldblatt P., and Manning J.C. Plant diversity of the Cape Region of Southern Africa. Ann. Miss. Bot. Gard. 89 (2002) 281-302
61. Linder H.P. Evolution of diversity: the Cape flora. Trends Plant Sci. 10 (2005) 536-541
62. Linder H.P. Investigating the evolution of floras: problems and progress. An introduction. Divers. Distrib. 12 (2006) 3-5
63. Klak C., et al. Unmatched tempo of evolution in Southern African semi-desert ice plants. Nature 427 (2004) 63-65
64. Lusk C., and Bellingham P. Austral challenges to northern hemisphere orthodoxy. IV Southern Connections Conference: Towards a southern perspective, Cape Town, South Africa, January 2004. New Phytol. 162 (2004) 248-251
65. Pauw A., et al. Flies and flowers in Darwin's race. Evolution Int. J. Org. Evolution 63 (2008) 268-279
66. Cowling R.M., et al. Explaining the uniqueness of the Cape flora: incorporating geomorphic evolution as a factor for explaining its diversification. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 51 (2009) 64-74
67. Verboom G.A., et al. Origin and diversification of the Greater Cape flora: ancient species repository, hot-bed of recent radiation, or both?. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 51 (2009) 44-53
68. Hopper S.D., et al. Molecular phylogenetics of Haemodoraceae in the Greater Cape and Southwest Australian Floristic Regions. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 51 (2009) 19-30
69. Darwin C.R. On the action of sea-water on the germination of seeds. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1 (1857) 130-140
70. Crisp M.D., et al. Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale. Nature 458 (2009) 754-756
71. Darwin C.R. Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle, round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R. N. 1st edn (1839), John Murray
72. Grant P.R., and Grant B.R.H. How and Why Species Multiply. The Radiation of Darwin's Finches (2008), Princeton University Press
73. Eyre E.J. Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1 (1845), T. & W. Boone
74. Mayr E. Systematics and Origin of Species (1942), Columbia University Press
75. Mallet J. A century of evolution: Ernst Mayr (1904-2005). Mayr's view of Darwin: was Darwin wrong about speciation?. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 95 (2008) 3-16
76. Darwin C.R. On the specific difference between Primula veris, Brit. Fl. (var. officinalis, of Linn.), P. vulgaris, Brit. Fl. (var. acaulis, Linn.) and P. elatior, Jacq.; and on the hybrid nature of the common oxlip. With supplementary remarks on naturally-produced hybrids in the genus Verbascum. J. Linn. Soc. London (Bot.) 10 (1868) 437-454
77. Mallet J. In: Levin S.A. (Ed). Subspecies, Semispecies, and Superspecies in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (2001), Academic Press 523-526
78. Paterson H. The competitive Darwin. Paleobiology 31 (2005) 56-76
79. Paterson H.E.H. Evolution and the Recognition Concept of Species (1993), Johns Hopkins University Press
80. Ayala F.J. Darwin's greatest discovery: design without designer. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 104 (2007) 8567-8573
81. Shane M., and Lambers H. Cluster roots: a curiosity in context. Plant Soil 274 (2005) 101-125
82. Lambers H., et al. Root structure and functioning for efficient acquisition of phosphorus: matching morphological and physiological traits. Ann. Bot. (Lond.) 98 (2006) 693-713
83. Denton M.D., et al. Banksia species (Proteaceae) from severely phosphorus-impoverished soils exhibit extreme efficiency in the use and re-mobilization of phosphorus. Plant Cell Environ. 30 (2007) 1557-1565
84. Schiestl F.P. On the success of a swindle: pollination by deception in orchids. Naturwissenschaften 92 (2005) 255-264
85. Jersáková J., et al. Mechanisms and evolution of deceptive pollination in orchids. Biol. Rev. Camb. Philos. Soc. 81 (2006) 219-235
86. Roberts D.L., and Bateman R.M. Do ambush predators prefer rewarding or non-rewarding orchid inflorescences?. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 92 (2007) 763-771
87. Kritsky G. Darwin's Madagascan hawk moth prediction. Am. Entomol. 37 (1991) 206-210
88. Whittall J.B., and Hodges S.A. Pollinator shifts drive increasingly long nectar spurs in columbine flowers. Nature 447 (2007) 706-709
89. Johnson S.D., and Steiner K.E. Specialized pollination systems in southern Africa. S. Afr. J. Sci. 99 (2003) 345-348
90. Brown A.P., et al. Orchids of Western Australia (2008), University of Western Australia Press
91. Edwards W., and Moles A.T. Re-contemplate an entangled bank: the power of movement in plants revisited. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 160 (2009) 111-118
92. Lambers H., et al. Plant Physiological Ecology. 2nd edn (2008), Springer
93. Went F.W. On growth-accelerating substances in the coleoptile of Avena sativa. Proc. Koninkl. Ned. Akad. Wetensch. Ser. C. 30 (1926) 10-19
94. Galván-Ampudia C.S., and Offringa R. Plant evolution: AGC kinases tell the auxin tale. Trends Plant Sci. 12 (2007) 541-547
95. Went F.W., and Thimann K.V. Phytohormones (1937), Macmillan
96. Perbal G., and Driss-Ecole D. Mechanotransduction in gravisensing cells. Trends Plant Sci. 8 (2003) 498-504
97. Jaffe M.J., et al. Thigmo responses in plants and fungi. Am. J. Bot. 89 (2002) 375-382
98. Darwin, F., ed. (1887) The Life And Letters Of Charles Darwin, Including An Autobiographical Chapter (Vol. 1), John Murray
99. Davies T.J., et al. Darwin's abominable mystery: insights from a supertree of the angiosperms. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 101 (2004) 1904-1909
100. Thomas B.A. Darwin and plant fossils. Linnean 25 (2009) 24-42
101. de Saporta L.C.J.G. Paléontologie francais ou description des fossils de la France. Plantes Jurassiques Vol. 1 (1873), Libraire de l'Academie de Medecine
102. Friis E.M., et al. Cretaceous angiosperm flowers: innovation and evolution in plant reproduction. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 232 (2006) 251-293
103. Crepet W.L., and Niklas K.J. Darwin's second 'abominable mystery': why are there so many Angiosperm species?. Am. J. Bot. 96 (2009) 366-381
104. Howard J.C. Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?. J. Biol. 8 (2009) 15
105. Liu Y. A new perspective on Darwin's pangenesis. Biol. Rev. Camb. Philos. Soc. 83 (2008) 141-149
106. In: Vellacourt H. (Ed). Some Recollections of a Happy Life Marianne North in Australia & New Zealand. Caulfied (1986), Edward Arnold Publishers
107. Carlquist S. Island Biology (1974), Columbia University Press
108. Lyell C. Principles of Geology, Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes to the Earth's Surface by Reference to Causes Now in Operation. 1st edn Vol. 2 (1832), John Murray
109. Wallace A.R. Island Life (1881), Harper & Bros
110. Symon D., and Jusaitis M. Sturt Pea. A Most Splendid Plant (2007), Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium
111. James S.H. Some causes of seed sterility in certain native Australian plants. Int. Pl. Prop. Soc. Comb. Proc 28 (1978) 389-398
112. James S.H., et al. Seed abortion and the evolution of genetic systems in some Australian native plant groups. In: Hopper S.D. (Ed). Gondwanan Heritage Past, Present and Future of the Western Australian Biota (1996), Beatty & Sons 90-99
113. Byrne M., and Hopper S. Granite outcrops as ancient islands in old landscapes: evidence from the phylogeography and population genetics of Eucalyptus caesia (Myrtaceae) in Western Australia. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 93 (2008) 177-188
114. Dynesius M., and Jansson R. Evolutionary consequences of changes in species' geographical distributions driven by Milankovitch climate oscillations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 97 (2000) 9115-9120
115. Jansson R. Global patterns in endemism explained by past climate change. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci. 270 (2003) 583-590
116. Jansson R., and Davies T.J. Global variation in diversification rates of flowering plants: energy vs. climate change. Ecol. Lett. 11 (2008) 173-183